Daniele C. Struppa, Ph.D., is the President of Chapman University in Orange, California. Before assuming this title in 2016, he had served as Chapman University’s Chancellor (Chief Academic Officer) for ten years, and as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University for nine years. Dr. Struppa is a mathematician with expertise in the field of Fourier Analysis. He is also the author of ten volumes and more than 200 peer reviewed publications, and holds several patents in the field of signal processing. Dr. Struppa has received numerous awards, including the 2016 Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Struppa was born in Milano, Italy, in 1955, and came to the United States in 1978 to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland. After a few years in Italy, he returned to the United States as a professor of mathematics at George Mason University in 1988.